KENASTON—That big dump of snow in early March and all the shovelling that resulted, came at an opportune time for the Village of Kenaston.

It provided the community with lots of extra minutes of physical activity for its citizens and its supporters to log in the Saskatchewan in motion 2018 Go Out and Play Challenge.

That snowfall turned into a windfall. It put them over the top and Kenaston won the $10,000 grand prize for logging more than 419,650 minutes of physical activity in the 10-day community challenge. Stockholm came in second place with 381,200 minutes to win the $5,000 prize.

Into its seventh year, the Go Out and Play Challenge is sponsored by Saskatchewan Blue Cross to get more kids, more active, more often outdoors. Towns, villages and cities across the province sign up, create activities to get people in the community moving and then remind them to log their minutes of activity during the challenge, which took place from March 1 to 10.

To encourage physical activity, Kenaston’s Community Recreation Board offered free fitness classes during the 10 days, they had a skating party and community and school walks to promote the challenge and get people active, says Elaina Guilmette, chair of Kenaston’s recreation board.

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